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Sunday, July 30, 2006

A face in the clouds

I'm an inveterate cloudwatcher. Because my ride home is essentially westbound, I get the most dramatic views of the clouds. I am, of course, trying to avoid being pancaked by passing cars, so I can't stare at them too much. But because of where we live - lotsa thunderstorms rolling in off of Lake Huron - the spectacle of backlit clouds is often difficult to ignore.

Even when thunderstorms aren't threatening, the occasional image floats by and prompts me to wonder whether or not I've actually just seen something in those sorta-connected droplets of water. Thankfully, this time out, I had my camera with me.

27 comments:

Just moments ago I finished watching the Jodie Foster flick Flightplan so that's the first thing I thought of when I saw the clouds, Carmi. And that's not a pleasant memory 'cause the movie sucked pretty bad. (of course many will probably disagree with that analysis!)

Great picture though, Carmi. You sure do have a lot of them. Oh, and I was on the other side of the next lake over when I went to school. I was in Rochester NY so we got the lake effect snow off of Lake Ontario. I don't remember a lot of great clouds, but I do remember big snowbanks!

When I flew as a young kid, I used to try to see as far as possible to see if I could see god in the clouds. Then I kind of became un-religified... I think that one looks like a puppy or Börje Salming.

I love love love love to sit and watch the clouds. I have also been taking many pictures lately of them. I just wish the thunderstorms that have rolled in wouldn't have rolled right past us either. sigh.

Oh and I thought about you yesterday. My husband and I were in the car and we were coming to a stop at a red light. When we see this person in the left hand lane stopping and looking like he wanted to pull in front of us. When suddenly I see him reach across his seat and a camera comes out of his window and it looks like he's taking pictures of us. Only I see there is a Tim Hortons behind me, and then Adam sees a pretty neat orange car in the parking lot. Hehe... Not often do you see people taking pictures while they're driving. :)

Absolutely gorgeous picture. I love taking pictures of the clouds too. Just watching the shapes they take. Looking at the sunlight beaming through them. The colors they take when the sun sets. They are just out of this world.